Alternate-current commutator-motor.



"R. RICHTER. ALTERNATE CURRENT GOMMUTATOB MOTOR.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 15, 1907.

Patented June 21, 1910.

UNITED STATES PATENT anion.

RUDOLF RICHTER, OF CHARLOTTENBURG,

GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO $IEMENS -SCHIJ'CK- ERTWERKE G. M. B. EL, F BERLIN, GERMANY, A GERMAN CORPORATION.

ALTERNATE-CURRENT COMMUTATOR-MOTOR.

Berlin, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Alternate-Current Connnutator-Motors, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to alternate current commutator motors with series auxiliary windings and shunt auxiliary windings for canceling the reactancetensions and transformer tensions which arise in the coils which are at any t1meshort-c1rcu1ted by the brushes, and an important object is to provide two auxiliary windings which are simultaneously operative and so arranged that th-ey'reciprocally influence one .another as little as possible. i

In the coils of alternate current commutator motors which are at any time shortcircuited by the brushes, one tension arises in consequence of the alternating exciting field which passes through the armature and a second tension arises-owing to the current in the armature in the same manner as in the case of continuous current motors, namely a reactance tension. The former tension will be referred to in the following description for the sake of brevity as transformer tension. Both these tensions are displaced relatively to one'another l/ i period as is known. If, therefore, special commutating auxiliary windings or commutating auxiliary. oles are arranged, by which auxiliary .fie'ds are produced at suitable'places in the armature, the reactance tension only can be overcome by a field varying with the armature current which may e produced by a series auxiliary winding, whereas a shunt connection of an auxiliary winding is suitable for overcoming the transformer tension. The simplest arrangement would be to wind a series auxiliary winding and a shunt auxiliary on a common reversing pole, but such an arrangement would only have a limited effect for the following reasons. The two windings are instrength and phase by the tension at the terminals of the same, the resulting field in the shunt winding of the auxiliary pole is always maintained at the same value and in the same phase so that it can satisfy the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 21, 1910.

Application filed January 15, 1997. Serial No. 352,390.

conditions for only one certain strength of armature cur 'ent.

Means will now be described which, in accordance with the present invention, have the object of neutralizing in large measure the reciprocal influence of the two auxiliary windings, so that they are both actually effective in the manner intended.

In order that the invention may be more clearly understood reference is made to the accompanying drawing in which various arrangements of windings in accordance with the present invention are shown diagrammatically, by way of example, and in which- Figure 1 shows the series and shunt auxiliary windings on the same" pole; Fig. 2 shows the series and shunt-auxiliary Windings on separate adjacent poles; and Figs. 3, i, 5 the series and shunt auxiliary windings wound thereon in various arrangements.

In Fig. 1 (1 denotes the armature of an alternate current commutator motor, 0 the main exciting winding, 0 the compensation winding, h the series auxiliary winding and "nthe shunt auxiliary winding. The windings it and n are here thought of as being on one reversing pole, but in the shunt winding n a non-inductive or inductive resistance w is inserted in order to increase the drop in potential of the shunt circuit, or in order to make its resistance so great that the current induced by the series winding h in the shunt winding is small. Consequently the strength of current in the shunt winding is influenced but little by the main current so that the conditions of cut action of the two windings to be ful filled can thus be met in a more or less high degree" The arrangements in accordance with the present invention hereafter described are more effective for the object in view. The I most simple form of them is represented in Fig. 2 where a denotes a longitudinal section of the armature having the axis Z7E,' the two windings it and n are connected with the armature in series and shunt respectively and. are mounted one beside the other in the direction of the axis of the motor on separate auxiliary poles.

In the arrangement shown in Fig. 3 a plurality of the teeth of the stator are employed for the auxiliary windings. Theand 6 are developments of poles with the independrepresentation in the figure shows a development of a part of the stator. The shunt winding isplaced around five teeth, in the center of which the series winding h is arranged around one tooth at the place of reversal s. As the paths of the lines of force produced by the series winding are closed by the other four teeth inclosed by the shunt winding, the latter will therefore be nfluenced only little by the series winding.

Fig. 4 shows an arrangement by which that shown in Fig. 3 can be made still more efiicient. Inf-this case the teeth adjacent to the central tooth are included within the sphere of action of the series winding, the direction of the winding being such that the central tooth forms the common opposite pole to the like poles adjacent to it. It is evident that when. the winding is correctly proportioned none of the lines of force genrated by the main current pass through the shunt winding'n; thus the two windings will be entirely independent of one another. The series winding may also be on four teeth instead of on three, in which case the two inner teeth would be excited in one direction and two outer in the opposite direction.

In Fig. 5 the series winding h is shown arranged at the bottom of the slots, whereas the remaining compensation winding 0 for neutralizin the armature field is placed at the top in t .e slots. As is seen in the upper row of slots a the conductors h and a in the second slots right and left of the neutral zone a have currents in them of opposite direction. These conductors in these slots may therefore be omitted, as shown in the lower row of slots B. These vacant slots therefore allow of the shuntauxiliary winding being more easily arranged.

' n the arrangements of the windings according to Figs. 3, 4 and 5 it is clearly essential that the shunt windings surround the series windings.

In the case of multi-polar machines separate magnetic circuits may be made for the series auxiliary windin and shunt auxiliary winding, as Fig. 6 in icates, by arran the auxiliary poles at different places oi the a periphery of the armature, so that they act simultaneously on different sides of the short-circuited coil. In this figure the main poles of the machine f, have each got an auxiliary pole between t em. Each pair of these auxiliary poles carry alternately one of the windings h and n.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent i v 1. An alternating current commutator motor having an armature and a grooved stator, and having auxiliary windings in series and in shunt to .the armature to neutralize the reactance and transformer tensions in the short circuitedcoils of the armature, said two auxiliary windings being r disposed in diflerent grooves of the stator,

one of the auxiliary windings within the other.

2. An alternating current commutator motor having an armature and a ooved stator, and having auxiliary windings in series and in shunt to the armature to neutralize the reactance and transformer tensions in the short circuited coils of the arma- 

